[Tophersmom]

I would never look down on someone who purchases a puppy from a pet store....it's a difficult thing to do, to walk past those little cages and see those sweet little faces. Even knowing what I know now, I know it would be difficult to resist the temptation. Thankfully no pet stores in my city sell dogs.

I agree somewhat with the original poster when she said that to stop the mills one has to take down the mill itself...BUT... like any other 'product' (I use that term only to describe how puppymills look upon their dogs)...it is 'supply and demand'. If no one bought the dogs, there would be no need for more dogs to be bred. Just think...if not ONE person purchased a dog that came from a mill...there would be no need for them to breed more.

With human nature as it is, though, that will never happen and the mills will continue to breed more puppies to replace the ones that are sold. So each mill will have to be taken down one by one at the source. Puppies are just too darned cute and we humans have a hard time resisting their sweet faces and also many feel the need to rescue the ones in the shops that they do see.

I'm sure there are situations where the pups in the store come from a more reputable breeder, but for the most part, pups in pet stores do come from mills. It's a sad truth.

And another truth...we ALL love our babies...no matter WHAT their origin!!